US Patent Issued to Activar Construction Products Group on Jan. 28 for "Door latch block and assembly" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,209,443, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Activar Construction Products Group Inc. (Bloomington, Minn.).

"Door latch block and assembly" was invented by David R. Wise (New Westminster, Canada), Kim Thomas Sefton Band (Surrey, Canada) and David John Ashcroft (Coquitlam, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various examples are directed to apparatus and methods for providing a door latch block assembly. An apparatus includes a first planar surface configured to mount parallel to and facing away from a first side of a door frame, and a second planar surface configured to mount flush with and facing toward the first side of the door frame...